Another way to do this involves spending some money and getting a program
that will do natural neighbor polygons (also known as Theissen polygons,
Regions of Influence, proximal polygons, etc).
Using this, you can create polygons from your point file (stores) that will
divide the region in question into areas defining what is that is closer to
each source point than any other point.
You can get this from several places:
* The MapTools Company http://members.aol.com/maptools/tritools.html ($149
- I used this one for years)
* Kiev Software Factory http://www.ksf.kiev.ua/ ($390)
* Vertical Mapper ($999, but does much more than just what you asked for).
Steve Wallace
GIS & Market Info Manager
Florida Farm Bureau Insurance Co's
At 11:55 AM 10/20/1999 -0600, Bill Thoen wrote:
>Now you have a list of customers and their names (in this case)
>with the store Id nearest to them.
>
>Simple, huh?
>
>- Bill Thoen
>
>
>Berk Charlton wrote:
> > Let's say I have two point tables, one is a table of store locations,
> and the
> > other is a table of customers. I need to be able to put the store id and
> > distance to the closest store to each of the customer points.
> >
> > I new to Mapinfo, but in the past been able to do this in Arcview and
> Atlas GIS
> > easily.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Berk Charlton
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